29 Random Bits of Trivia About Seth MacFarlane and His Many Works

From ‘Family Guy’ to, well, the million other things he’s worked on
29 Random Bits of Trivia About Seth MacFarlane and His Many Works
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Seth MacFarlane has been in the comedy game for quite some time now, but because of those cool, edgy dudes over at South Park, people have long-debated his credibility in the writing department. We don’t know where you stand on the matter, but one thing is for sure, with the amount of hits under his belt, this polarizing figure has become a comedy staple for many people.

So whether you’re here as a fan or as a hater, here are a bunch of random facts about the many works of Seth MacFarlane…

Cleveland Jr.

Cleveland Brown Jr. on Family Guy, is a skinny, hyperactive child. On the spinoff The Cleveland Show, he's an overweight, soft-spoken kid who wears gl

American Dad

In AMERICAN DAD, Steve gets shouted at in a drug lab: LÁVATE LAS MANOS! which he repeats vigorously, thinking it's a spell. Actually it's Spanish for: WASH YOUR HANDS! Not SO magical. CRACKED COM

Quagmire

SETH MACFARLANE QUAGMIRE GRACKED.COM My father used to buy me old radio dramas, and commercials from the '40s and '50s had this high-pitched voice. So Quagmire's a 50's radio jockey on coke combined with a sex-crazed pervert. Giggity.

Peter Griffin’s Inspiration

CRACKED.COM FAMiLY GUY Peter Griffin's accent, look, and mannerisms came from a security guard named Paul Timmins who worked at the Rhode Island School of Design. The show's creator, Seth MacFarlane, had been a student there and would smoke cigarettes and chat with Timmins a couple times a day.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

cartoon celebrities The Weekenders Family Guy Jennifer Love Hewitt Hewitt isn't afraid to poke fun at her celebrity, voicing a version of herself on the raunchy Family Guy and also cameoing in the children's cartoon The Weekenders. CRACKED.COM

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The Banned Family Guy Episode

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM A FAMILY GUY EPISODE WAS BANNED BECAUSE IT INVOLVED ABORTION. The episode, Partial Terms of Endearment, couldn't run on TV - but it did make it on DVD.

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Family Guy

Family Guy was supposed to be a series of shorts on MADtv CRACKED.COM Similar to how The Simpsons began on The Tracy Ullman Show, Family Guy was originally pitched to Fox as a series of animated shorts for MADtv. Ultimately, MAD didn't have the budget for the animation, so the network decided to give Seth MacFarlane his own time slot. Fitting that the wild little brother of SNL almost launched the wild little brother of The Simpsons.

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William H. Macy on Family Guy?

WILLIAM H MACY FAMILY GUY CRACKED CON Seth MacFarlane decided to bypass Macy for the role of Brian and go with ... Seth MacFarlane. I look back and I'm like, 'How cocky and arrogant must I have been at 24 to have Bill Macy audition and go, 'You know what? I don't

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29 Random Bits of Trivia About Seth MacFarlane and His Many Works

Roger from American Dad

American Dad's Roger is a tribute to Paul Lynde. Seth MacFarlane based the campy and belittling alien's voice on the star, best-known for his, well, c

A Million Ways to Die in the West

A CRACKED OON MILLIIN WAYS WEST TO DIE IN THE Seth McFarlane was watching Hang Em High (1968) when he began joking to his writers about how depressing

His Tweets

CRACKEDco Seth MacFarlane Follow eSethMacFarlane In other words, don't think critically, don't consult multiple news sources, and in general, don't us

Ted

CRACKED CO COM TED'S PREMISE IS IDENTICAL TO IMAGINE THIS. While there's no evidence that Seth MacFarlane was influenced by the comic strip, created f

Liam Neeson

Liam Neeson, aware that his Irish accent had been made fun of in a Family Guy episode, agreed to star in Seth McFarlane's A Million Ways to Die In the

Family Guy Jokes

Through his own creations, Seth MacFarlane called himself a talentless douche. 889 At the end of the Family Guy special It's a Trap, some of the Gri

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